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This photo was shot from the top of Eldorado Peak in North Cascades National Park way back in 2003 when I was just getting into mountaineering. We had ascended to high camp on the glacier and after setting up the tents went to "check out the climb". But soon we decided to just "go for it". We summited by sunset which provided great light for taking photos. However, stumbling back down over the glacier, seeing crevasses in the last moment, we barely found the tents. Luckily we had placed a few wands on the glacier.

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This is a close up shot of some climbers in the French Direct route up Alpamayo's south east face. The chute is about 500m high and goes straight from the bergschrund to the summit. The steepness is about 45-50 degrees so not quite as steep as it might appear on this photo. When we climbed the route the next morning, we used fixed ropes to prevent somebody from falling down.

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This is probably the fourth or fifth photo with Alpamayo (5947 m) that I've been posting in the past weeks -- sorry about that! But I think that such a magnificent mountain justifies a bit of spamming...

It looks like these guys are descending but in fact they are negotiating their way up the glacier to Alpamayo high camp. What a fun glacier and what great weather we had! The weather was like this almost every day during the 4 weeks trip!

A few days ago I returned from a trek through Patagonia's Parque nacional Los Glaciares. One of the highlights was camping at Cerro Torre's base camp at Lago Torre. This picture was taken at 10:30pm, just after the sun had set. The days are long (and the nights still cold) this time of year in Patagonia...

A few days ago I returned from a trek through Patagonia's Parque nacional Los Glaciares. One of the highlights was camping at Cerro Torre's base camp at Lago Torre. This picture was taken at 10:30pm, just after the sun had set. The days are long (and the nights still cold) this time of year in Patagonia...

A couple days ago I travelled to El Chalten which is the access town to the Cerro Torre/Cerro Fitz Roy range. The weather was amazing. I took this photo from the moving bus with my camera dangling over the drivers head. Quite dangerous as the bus driver seemed to be in a hurry and was driving very "dynamic" and I nearly fell into his gear lever...

The spiky mountain in the center is Cerro Torre and the fat mountain on the right is Cerro Fitz Roy.